Finance Business Partner

Role Overview

The successful candidate for this permanent, full time role will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:

• Previous experience of being a proactive Finance Business Partner in a structured, professional environment & a strong track record of embedding financial awareness within the business
• Experience of communicating credibly and confidently with senior management and auditors
• Flexibility to work with in a dynamic and changing environment
• A strong advocate of strong financial governance and processes
• A track record of embedding financial awareness within the business

 
Please download a full job description to see a full person specification and role responsibilities.
 
Directorate/Department Overview
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:

• Previous experience of being a proactive Finance Business Partner in a structured, professional environment & a strong track record of embedding financial awareness within the business
• Experience of communicating credibly and confidently with senior management and auditors
• A track record of embedding financial awareness within the business.

We are looking for an employee with the following attributes:

• A self-starter with the ability to work on their own initiative
• Flexibility to work with in a dynamic and changing environment
• A strong advocate of strong financial governance and processes
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear manner
• A positive attitude to difficult problems and a drive secure a successful outcome to them
• Strong advocate of finance and financial controls and able to demonstrate accuracy and diligence with the ability to be autonomous.
• Ability to enhance processes and controls – focus on continuous improvement is essential, and
• Delivery focused approach to work and able to priorities high volumes of work/challenges.
• Ability to seek solutions to complex situations and the desire to deliver constant improvement- a problem solver
• Commercially aware, with the ability to understand and anticipate the needs of the business area they serve
• Strong core business skills including influencing, stakeholder management and presentation skills
• Be able to interpret high volumes of complex data and distil into findings that are relevant to stakeholders and present these in a clear and concise way

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the guaranteed interview scheme.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. 
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